Letters: El Paso voters should decide city's future

El Paso voters should decide city's future

One way to ramrod political change is to create a school board managed by hand-picked conservatives, who then are able to shape youthful development willy-nilly of citizen voter intent or desire.

The current Board of Managers was not the choice of El Paso voters.

It was handed us by a state official whose political allegiance has been to a conservative and fiscally profligate party.

Only the ex-superintendent's lax integrity or the state's very imperfect shepherding of testing has been as damaging.

Has El Paso now been deemed a city where voters are side-stepped when those, opposed to voter voice, want to cram through a political agenda?

But El Paso's demography is the new demographic of Texas. Moves to keep citizens from voting on ball parks or school boards or other vital community issues may just guarantee continuing derision for this city.

Whether it is City Manager Joyce Wilson or current Commissioner of Education Michael Williams trying to foist their agendas upon us, El Pasoans' intelligence and awareness more than suffice to help us shape this city for ourselves and our students without such political interference and superior attitudes.

Anne Holder West Side

Americans want leaders to talk to each other

I am an American. I dislike illegal immigration, but rejoice in legal immigration,

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I believe in free speech, that anyone can say anything to me, and I will listen to them, and hear them out and not hate them for their thoughts,

I believe that every person has the right to be happy, even if what makes them happy is unholy in my religion.

I remember the past, and everyone who died protecting this land, and also who died changing it to what it is now.

I am an American, and I am proud to be in this land. I am an American, who wants talks and compromise.

In the words of a past American, a house divided can not stand.

Patrick Arrington Northeast El Paso

Parents should make sure children are ready for bus

While I can't condone running bus stop signs, I can feel for those who do, especially in the morning.

I live in the Far East Side (Rich Beem and Montana) and I have literally waited five and seven minutes at one of those simply because parents do not have their kids ready to get on the bus once it arrives.

The bus is waiting for the children to board, and the parents are still dressing their kids and putting on their shoes.

I hope part of this pilot program to put cameras on buses on the side with the stop sign will chart just how long this stop sign was activated — and address that issue as well.

My solution was to leave earlier for work.

I'd rather show up to work a half hour or more early in order to miss the buses than have to wait behind a bus and develop road rage.

Walter Basil Far East Side

Thanks to motorists who helped injured dog

We just recently moved back to El Paso after a few years away.

We couldn't wait to get back to El Paso for so many reasons, but mostly for the wonderful people in the community.

Saturday, we saw just one example of the loving and generous spirit of El Pasoans.

My husband and I left Fort Bliss to pick up dinner near the intersection of Gateway North and Sean Haggerty Drive when we saw what appeared to be a German shepherd in the median with severe injuries. It was struggling just to walk.

We immediately tried to find a safe place to pull over, but before we could one family and then another family immediately pulled over and gently caught the injured dog.

As we left, they were bringing a big blanket and appeared to be preparing to transport it to their vehicles.

What a beautiful showing of how we can take a small amount of time out of our day to show love to an innocent creature in need.

We've only been back in El Paso for two weeks, but we've already seen the best of El Pasoans.

Our thanks to those wonderful people who stopped and helped this poor dog. The world can be such a beautiful place.

Kristin Murray Fort Bliss

Don't use Scripture to attack any group

The Times on Sunday apologized for publishing a Scripture as part of an ongoing relationship with a group Pastors for Jesus.

They explain the choice of verse was not the best choice because it seemed to attach blame to our Jewish brothers and sisters for the death of Jesus, noting this verse and others have been used to attack various individuals and groups over time.

This is nothing new, of course, as we know.

The same happens over and over to attack the LGBT community. But thank you, Times, for your comments.